Coach Jordan pg. 5
Clear Creek Marching Band pg. 13
Road Construction pg.8
Hurricane Harvey strongly impacts the community By Catherine Irvine Editor-In-Chief
For nine days Hurricane Harvey devastated parts of Texas and Louisiana. Harvey formed on August 17 and dissipated on September 3. At its peak, the destructive Atlantic hurricane reached a category four with wind speeds of 1304miles per hour. The highest accumulation of water from the storm reached 64 inches in just four days. The rain water left over 500,000 flooded cars and over 30,000 people displaced from their homes. Harvey claimed a total of 77 lives, 76 from the United States and one from Guyana. Days after Harvey, Hurricane Irma hit the Caribbean and Florida as a category five hurricane and lasted over a week. Irma hit its highest intensity on September 6. Sustained winds reached 185 miles per hour. The Hurricane 132 lives. Days after Irma, Hurricane Maria made land fall as a category five hurricane. Maria caused catastrophic damage to the Caribbean, Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Dominica. Maria was the worst natural disaster recorded in Dominica. Maria wiped out
power and connection in Puerto Rico. As of October 8, 86 people were recorded as being killed by the storm. Together, Irma and Harvey took away over 33,000 jobs from Texas,
over, due to major highways being flooded in Houston. Immediately after the hurricanes almost everyone in the community was volunteering or donating goods. Several
Photo by Sierra Dickey Florida and Louisiana. celebrities including J.J. Hurricanes Irma and Watt, Beyoncé, Taylor Maria make the 2017 storm season to be Swift as well as several others donated the first one to have two or more category money to Harvey relief funds. five storms since 2007. Athletic groups such as baseball, Those who chose to evacuate from football and volleyball at Creek l met at Hurricane Harvey were unable to come Veterans Stadium to help clean up houses back until a few days after the storm was that had been destroyed by flood waters.
Several restaurants in League City and Dickinson gave away free food during the initial recovery period. People volunteered by either cleaning homes, making food, buying goods or working for shelters or watching children for adults who were cleaning homes out. “I helped others during this event because I saw that my community was in need, and people I know needed to be helped and I couldn’t just stand by,” Elias Avila, Junior, said. Clear Creek Independent School District opened several schools, including Creek as shelters and donation centers for those who were displaced by Harvey. The shelters accepted lightly used clothes, hygiene products, canned foods and cleaning supplies. Schools in the district faced damages ranging from leaking ceilings to flooded gym floors. On October 21, Texas A&M University will host a concert to help with Harvey recovery.All living former presidents will attend the concert. The concert will include Texas performers such as the Gatlin Brothers, and Lyle Lovett, along with the country group Alabama and singer Lee Greenwood
Dental program allows new choices for students By Kaydn Chatman Reporter
The construction at Clear Creek High School began in 2004 and just recently ended after 13 years. There is now a new career and technology wing for people to take classes in. Which includes a professional dental program, a third gym, renovations to the fine arts facilities, renovations to Carlisle gym, locker area, offices and natatorium. One major project is the dental program which includes a class room with dental chairs, an x-ray machine, a reception office and an abundance of other things. The program is the first dental program in Clear Creek ISD and is open to all students, juniors or above, that attend a high school in CCISD. Students wanting to take the class must submit an application which can be found on the CCISD website. In the application, you must include your full name, student ID, and date of birth. Accepted students get to work with equipment that would be found in a regular dentist office. Students that do not attend Clear Creek High School, but attend other campuses in CCISD are able to travel to the campus to take the class. In order for students to do so, they must complete the program and pass their state boards to become registered dental assistants. When one becomes a professional dental assistant, they take care of patients, take x-rays, and practice record keeping
and scheduling appointments. Some duties may differ by state and the dentist office they work at. Dental assistants make about $35,908 a year, but the amount is predicted
treatment procedures. For example, taking and developing dental radiographs, serving as an infection control officer, developing infection control protocol and preparing
to increase by 18 Photo by Sebastian Sandoval and sterilizing instruments and percent. While working equipment, providing patients as a dental assistant important skills to with instructions for oral care following have are listening skills, organizational surgery. Also, other dental treatment skills, interpersonal skills, dexterity and procedures such as the placement of a detailed oriented skills. People who are filling, teaching patients appropriate oral wanting to work in dental offices as hygiene strategies to maintain oral health, assistants must have had previous training performing office management tasks on how to use instruments, interact with that often require the use of a personal patients and complete daily task such as computer, helping provide direct patient assisting the dentist during a variety of care in all dental specialties, asking about
the patients’ medical history and taking blood pressure and pulse, and keeping the patients feeling comfortable before, during, and after dental treatment. Doing this helps dental assistants get opportunities like developing solo dental practices and even group practices. The new expansion in CCISD is one of just many expansions to help kids get the first two years of college complete. If this continues, it will help parents save thousands of dollars on college expenses. Many people are starting to take early college classes while in high school so they don’t have to spend as much time in college. There are multiple ways to earn college credit in CCISD, one way is for students having the opportunity to go to Clear Horizons, which is an early college school. Students who go to Clear Horizons are able to take early college classes while still in high school so that when they graduate they will not have to take as many courses as an incoming freshman. There are also AP classes that are available for students in high school to take. If the students pass their AP test, then they receive a credit for college and will not have to take that class in college if it is part of their classes. CCISD adding a dental program is very resourceful to students who are interested in becoming a dentist or a dental assistant because it will help to lower their college expenses and make it easier for them to be able to get their degree faster.